Not an unreasonable price, I must admit. Somebody needs 'em, I'm sure.

But who made these? Williams never made any, so they can't be 'original' - and over the last 10+ years, there have been several companies making repros of varying quality.

Planetary made them from the original screens.

They are not original decals from the original run, as the original run were screened directly on the side of the wood cabinet.

Having said that, these are the highest quality sets made.

No the didn't, they all came from me

I unlike Gene paid Lucas arts for the license and supplied PPS with inventory

Gene ran them without a license it is possible some were in Genes possession at ipbs end

I can tell you Genes had a flaw in the films through the sun, ours didnt

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Too funny. Who gives a f*ck who made them, as long as they are screened and are licensed by Williams?

Because some were nicer than others, even though they were licensed, and some seconds (you'll always get imperfections in pieces in a run) may be sold as firsts by some vendors.

I've never had an issue with ones bought from Ballypinball.

If there an adhesion issue after too many years. My first thought would be to use Rapid Tac anyway. Any insight? I have had an IJ with faded cab and good pf forever.

Bingo. That is the key. I was trying to ascertain the source because some are really good, some are really bad, and some fall in between.

I am no BK, but I've done my fair share of restoration work and am knowledgeable on the subject, hence the line of questioning.

I have one more IJ left to restore, but I think I'll pass, thanks!

I'll just say this, John, I've met and dealt with ulmpharmd (his name is Aaron). I'm not sure if Aaron knows what he has, hell, I don't know what he has, but he would never knowingly screw you. He's a super nice guy.

@ Taxman-
I've used RapidTac (and Rapid Remover) for all of my cabinet decal restoration work (15+ years) and couldn't be happier with it. Some like it wet, and some like it dry.

It all depends on your level of anxiety when applying decals, and the effort you want to expend to make the cabinet as perfect as possible before application. I spent 6 months getting my IJ cab as perfect as I could make it before applying the decals. I THINK there is less involved when prepping a cabinet for dry application vs. wet, but I don't know, and don't pretend to know, because I ALWAYS have used the wet method.

I wanted to get it done right the first time and wanted time to play with decal placement, so the dry method was out.

I had 5 sets of IJ decals at one time, 3 of them from different manufacturers. Over time, I chose the best quality screened decals I had and used them, then kept the next best set as emergency backup.

One set I gave away, one I sold on eBay, and the other was returned due to a crease in one of the cabinet decals when it was discovered damaged in transit.

Bryan's been doing this for a long time and is 100% professional, so I would take his advice over my own.

Greg

Agree there are several versions out there, most of mine had the silver hologram on the coin door

Original art and done by the original Williams screen printer who did cc,sw,rfm and many others

The artwork has been spoken for. Thanks, Aaron!!

I've used Rapid-Tac since 2006, never had an issue with any repro decals I've added on. I put that shit on everything!

No problem, Aaron. Let me know when you have any other shit you want to get rid of.

Damn, I need these. Always a minute late